Slow Flowers Podcast

Slow Flowers Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode 709: Diana Roy of Resendiz Brothers Protea Growers on welcoming the 2025 International Protea Conference to their fields
March 26, 2025

https://youtu.be/JtAXk83WRGs?si=fOCKwJtSS5qZysiZ Lovers of Fynbos, the beautiful plants in the Proteacae family, will enjoy todays conversation with expert protea grower and long-time Slow Flower

Episode 708: Reconceptualized Sympathy Flowers with Nicole Wright of The Pink Peony
March 19, 2025

https://youtu.be/UL1__YrDzHs?si=lKHhw6SLt2EANe_a After years of frustration over outdated and unsustainable floral options that funeral homes offered bereaved families, floral designer Nicole Wrig

Episode 707: Cassie Plummer of Vermont’s Jig-Bee Flower Farm on diversifying with open-pollinated, non-GMO treated, sustainably-grown flower seeds
March 12, 2025

https://youtu.be/XJdj0U5NqC4?si=irqk_FX_GQ_qLe-j If youre interested in what flower farmings chapter two might look like, todays guest shares one version of that narrative. After 8 years of i

Episode 706: Flori’s Lori Poliski on the Art of Pot-et-Fleur, A Large-Scale Design Demonstration With Plants, Cut Flowers, and Foliage
March 05, 2025

https://youtu.be/NCf0gEPkzDk?si=8FLuZLE6FHh28WuQ Lori Poliski is reviving the forgotten art of Pot-et-Fleur, an iconic floral style, historically defined as living arrangements with plants, cut f

Episode 705: Growing Flowers in the Edible Garden, with Willi Galloway, author of “Grow Cook Eat”
February 26, 2025

https://youtu.be/cq7Uf-SBTC8?si=w8z2EoJRqN1NqrfP Master Gardener and writer Willi Galloway is a home gardener who loves to grow food and cook with the vegetables she harvests from her urban kitche

Episode 704: Sweet Pea School with Marryn Mathis of The Farmhouse Flower Farm
February 19, 2025

https://youtu.be/xuhf4DJpX2o?si=wyTAMBP3B1B8qw9t Take a deep breath and inhale the intoxicating fragrance of a sweet pea. Who wouldnt want to grow this stunning annual flower beloved for its dr

Episode 703: The New Art of Paper Flowers with Quynh Nguyen of Pink & Posey
February 12, 2025

https://youtu.be/Qr-Di1slgMQ?si=sHuKvg69KD_g4MIf Join Quynh Nguyen, the paper artist behind Pink and Posey, as she shares her decade-long journey in paper artistry, from crafting her first floral

Episode 702: Sustainable Floral Design and its History, with Per Benjamin – author, World Cup Winner, and florist for the Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies
February 05, 2025

https://youtu.be/xo0eJsPkCKQ?si=JQMfrx44CujdC8ys Last weekend I was invited to Vancouver, British Columbia, where two floral luminaries, Hitomi Gilliam and Per Benjamin, were teaching an in-person

Episode 701: Meet Mother-Daughter Duo Kim Urso and Kylie Pack of Yellow Petal Farm, Nevada’s Small-Business Agriculture Award Recipients for 2024
January 29, 2025

https://youtu.be/7SxS3vDHrQo?si=EkE5x41RdrS5V0qn Showcasing floral agriculture as a valuable farm crop in an area surrounded by ranches and alfalfa farms, Kim and Kylie operate Yellow Petal Flower

Episode 700: How Sue Dykstra and Kelly Lewis of Michigan’s Creekside Growers transitioned a 25-year-old retail plant nursery into a cut flower farm with year-round production
January 22, 2025

https://youtu.be/cHpC0UiCDzA?si=fdpuerpqG-mQ63Xk Experienced plantswoman Sue Dykstra has operated nurseries for decades. She opened Creekside Growers in 2001, expanding the Middleville, Michigan b